Battle of Dogger Bank (1915)

When

24 Jan 1915

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

54.56° N, 5.46° E

Location

Dogger Bank, North Sea

Outcome

British victory

Belligerents

Germany vs United Kingdom

Part of World War I

The Battle of Dogger Bank was a naval engagement during the First World War near the Dogger Bank in the North Sea, between squadrons of the British Grand Fleet and the Kaiserliche Marine. The British had intercepted and decoded German wireless transmissions, gaining advance knowledge that a German raiding squadron was heading for the Dogger Bank. Ships of the Grand Fleet sailed to intercept the raiders.

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• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributors · names it “Battle of Dogger Bank”Creative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “WWI: Battle of Dogger Bank – The British Grand Fleet defeats the German High Seas Fleet, sinking the armoured cruiser Blücher”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Im Gefecht auf der Doggerbank erleidet die deutsche Kaiserliche Marine eine Niederlage gegen die britische Royal Navy”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “victoire de la flotte britannique près du Dogger Bank sur l'escadre allemande”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• World War I28 Jul 1914 · Interstate war · Deaths 17,000,000